Fragrance has the instantaneous and invisible power to penetrate consciousness with pure pleasure. Scent reaches us in ways that elude sight and sound but conjure imagination in… Read more “Lazy Weekend Read: Essence & Alchemy”
Category: Rants & Ramblings
Perfume Addicts Anonymous & SSS Tabac Aurea
Do you ever wonder if there exist within our community “recovering” perfumistas? Imagine a dusty perfume cabinet, with twenty or thirty (or more) flacons, multitude decants, and… Read more “Perfume Addicts Anonymous & SSS Tabac Aurea”
Scent Therapy for the Work Week
It’s 15 degrees outside, and no matter where the thermostat is set inside the house, this kind of cold gets into your bones. My lips are painfully… Read more “Scent Therapy for the Work Week”
What does cold smell like?
Birgit posed this question yesterday in her post, “New Year, New Perfume, New Love,” and today I attempted to answer it. The hubby and I started 2011… Read more “What does cold smell like?”
The Infinite Appeal of Lists
As I said in my 2010 retrospective, Exploring fragrances as they launch is exciting, but no more so than exploring the glorious back-log of wonderful scents still… Read more “The Infinite Appeal of Lists”
beauty on the outside 